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The WiX Toolset (formerly known as Windows Installer XML) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages and WiX bootstrappers from XML source code. The toolset supports a command line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI and MSM setup packages ...

I'm having problems getting my CI build to work under TeamCity. I've got similar projects that build OK, so I don;t think it is a TeamCity problem per se, but I've looked at this so much I'm starting ...

I've just installed latest Wix v3.7. I created a VS 2010 "Excel 2010 Add-in" project and, in the same solution, a Wix "Setup Project".
Problem is, when I try to reference the Add-in project from the ...

I have an application packaged with MSI that is made into a WiX bundle together with various required third-party tools. I have disabled modify and repair actions in the MSI du to how the application ...

I have very weird scenario to handle.
We have an WIX based MSI installer. Now we want to bootstrap this MSI so I planned to use WIX Burn. Till now everything works fine. But I ran into a problem when ...

I'm trying to use Wix to create a database in LocalDB, but I'm not sure of the connection string to use (or if it is even possible). At the moment I have done some Googling and found that in Wix 3.6 ...

We have a built a custom .NET-based installer for one of our products using WiX, and we are currently trying to implement a "Cancel" button that is shown while the installation is running. When this ...

Hello I have custom bootstrapper application. All work fine, but when work is done and i close app process continuing to hang. I've noticed that when i tryed to recompile installer. I have code like ...

In our WiX bundle install, we have an install condition (inside of a bal:Condition element). It checks for various versions of the Windows O/S. Is there a problem using a greater than or equal to in ...

I've found this utterly hilarious bug when I've been trying to debug my WiX installer's custom actions.
I didn't write the code, but somehow one of my three managed .dlls decides it is invisible to ...

I have read this article on creating a bootstrapper to install the .NET framework.
I have a wix setup project and need to do a similar thing and more.
Is there an alternative way to install .NET on ...

I have added a Service Reference in my Windows Service project and I use Wix to install.
When I use Wix for installation the call to the service doesn't work at all.
When using InstallUtil in VS2010 ...

We are using Wix 3.8 with VS2013. We have a bundle installer, which runs couple of .MSI installers. One of .MSI installers contains multiple custom actions. For some reason, these custom actions are ...

I'm really needing some assistance. I'm using VS 2012, which I chose Wix Toolset v3.9 as the deployment method for my VB.NET application. I have ran into an issue that I've spent hours on and hoping I ...

I am new to creating Boostrapper packages. Currently I created Boostrapper package in which all prerequisistes((VC++,IPP,WIndows installer 3.1, application.mxi) will be inside one single folder and ...

So I have created a nice new installer using WiX for my customer complete with nice shiny new custom bootstrapper and everyone was happy. However I have struck a problem.
There are a number of user ...

My WiX installer is creating an event log source, and the customer is insisting that they want to set the access to the event source via the installer. That is, when the run the installer, they want ...